Certain phrases and words are herein defined as follows:
ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER
The Secretary of the approving authority for the type of
application for development involved.
[Added 11-8-1978]
APPROVING AUTHORITY
The Township Land Use Board, unless a different municipal
agency is designated in the text of this chapter or has the power
of review, approval or other action, when acting pursuant to the authority
of the Municipal Land Use Law, in which case it shall be that municipal agency.
[Amended 3-20-2001 by Ord. No. 01-2]
BUILDING PERMIT
The construction permit required under the New Jersey State
Uniform Construction Code for new construction, renovation, alterations
or additions or a combination thereof.
CONDITIONAL USE
A use permitted in a particular zoning district only upon
a showing that such use in a specific location will comply with the
conditions and standards for the location or operation of such use
as contained in the Zoning Ordinance and upon the issuance of an authorization therefor by
the approving authority.
LOT
A designated parcel or area of land established by plat or
otherwise established by deed description, subdivision of record or
survey map and to be used, developed or built upon as a unit.
MAINTENANCE GUARANTY
Any security, other than cash, which may be accepted by the
Township for maintenance of any improvements required by this chapter.
MAJOR SUBDIVISION
Any subdivision not classified as a minor subdivision.
[Added 3-15-2005 by Ord. No. 2005-08]
MINOR SUBDIVISION
[Amended 11-8-1978; 6-11-1980; 3-15-2005 by Ord. No.
2005-8]
(1)
A subdivision of land that does not involve:
(a)
The creation of more than two new lots, in addition
to the remainder of the original lot.
(b)
Planned development as defined in the Municipal
Land Use Law.
(d)
Extension of any off-tract improvement the cost of which is to be prorated pursuant to §
64-37 of this chapter.
(2)
A minor subdivision shall not involve property
which has been granted a minor subdivision within the previous twenty-four-month
period.
OFF-SITE AND OFF-TRACT IMPROVEMENTS
Improvements outside the site in question or the tract in
question, respectively, to accommodate conditions generated inside
the original tract as the result of the proposed development which
shall include but not be limited to installation of new improvements
and extensions and modification of existing improvements.
OWNER
An individual, firm, association, syndicate, copartnership
or corporation having sufficient proprietary interest in the land
sought to be developed to commence and maintain proceedings to develop
same under this chapter.
[Amended 11-8-1978]
RIGHT-OF-WAY
The total width and length of the course of a street, watercourse,
utility alignment or other way and within which all improvements and
rights of access are confined.
SILTATION BASIN
A facility through which stormwater is directed and which
is designed to collect eroded soil from a designated area.
SITE PLAN, EXEMPT
A site plan which is exempt from the requirement of site
plan review and approval. Such a site plan is one which involves development
for which a building permit or zoning permit is required, but which
involves such a permit only for a detached one- or two-family dwelling
unit building or buildings or structures accessory thereto; or where
no new building or destruction or expansion of existing building is
involved and where, under the Zoning Ordinance, no change in permitted principal use or only a change
from one permitted principal use, and accessory uses thereto, to another
permitted principal use, and accessory uses thereto, is involved.
SITE PLAN, MINOR
A site plan for a development requiring less than 10 parking
and/or loading spaces as required in this chapter, containing less
than 2,500 square feet of floor area and not having more than 50%
lot coverage.
STREET
Any street, avenue, boulevard, road, parkway, viaduct, drive
or other way which is an existing state, county or municipal roadway,
which is shown upon a plat heretofore approved pursuant to law, which
is approved by official action as provided by this chapter or which
is shown on a plat duly filed and recorded in the office of the county
recording officer prior to the appointment of a Planning Board and
the grant to such Board of the power to review plats; and includes
the land between the street lines, whether improved or unimproved,
and may comprise pavement, shoulders, gutters, curbs, sidewalks, parking
areas and other areas within the street line. For the purposes of
this chapter, streets shall be classified as follows:
(2)
COLLECTOR STREETSThose which carry traffic from minor streets to the major system of arterial streets, including the principal entrance streets of a residential development and streets for circulation within such a development.
(3)
MINOR STREETSThose which are used primarily for access to the abutting properties.
(4)
MARGINAL ACCESS STREETSStreets which are parallel to and adjacent to arterial streets and highways and which provide access to abutting properties and protection from through traffic.
(5)
ALLEYSMinor ways which are used primarily for vehicular service access to the back or the side of properties otherwise abutting on a street.
TOWNSHIP
The Township of Washington, in the County of Warren, New
Jersey.
TRACT
An area of land composed of the lot or lots which are the
subject of the development application as well as all property (of
which such lot or lots are a part) contiguous thereto and in the same
ownership, and also all portions of a street or right-of-way contiguous
to such lot(s) or other property.
ZONING ORDINANCE
The applicable Zoning Ordinance of the Township, as amended
and supplemented.
ZONING PERMIT
The zoning permit required under the Zoning Ordinance.